Reuters pulled the plug on the final moments of broadcast coverage of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s appearance at a black church, because he was receiving applause from black Americans.

The United States has failed to uphold a promise that NATO would not expand into Eastern Europe, a deal made during the 1990 negotiations between the West and the Soviet Union over German unification: in February 1990 then-Secretary of State James Baker suggested that in exchange for cooperation on Germany, US could make iron-clad guarantees for Russia that NATO would not expand one inch eastward.

US-Ukrainian joint military exercises on Ukrainian territory have gradually transformed into the creation of a permanent American base. The initial signal was already a fact that similar exercises usually last for several days or weeks, but US troops remain there for several months.